Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 908-913 , September 2005

Evaluation of an iron specific checklist for the assessment of dietary iron intake in pregnant and postpartum women

Part of the study was presented at the Third Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand; Melbourne, Australia; 1999.

  • Shao J. Zhou, M.N.D.

      Affiliations

    • Child Nutrition Research Centre, Child Health Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    • ,
  • Michelle J. Schilling, M.N.D.

      Affiliations

    • Maternal Perinatal Clinical Trials Unit, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    • Nutrition Unit, Department of Public Health, Flinders University of South Australia, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
    • ,
  • Maria Makrides, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Child Nutrition Research Centre, Child Health Research Institute and Department of Paediatrics, University of Adelaide, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    • Maternal Perinatal Clinical Trials Unit, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University of Adelaide, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +618-8161-6067; fax: +618-8161-7481.

Received 30 September 2004 ,Accepted 20 November 2004.

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 Salary support for Maria Makrides was from a NHMRC Applied Health Sciences Fellowship and a NHMRC RD Wright Fellowship.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00168-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2004.11.020

Nutrition
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